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Affliction
Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak.It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to the dynamite. more
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- Posted: Jul-25-2009
You are missing the point . . .
Affliction is a movie about how childhood trauma rears its head in adulthood and makes a misery of a good man's life. Wade is not in any way a brutal man; he is a man who is making a valiant effort to keep himself from brutality. Because he was physically and emotionally abused as a boy, this is...
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- Posted: Jun-19-2009
Not received or returned to me the sender after many emails.
The book was rejected by Ventura Co. jail, Ca. and no one can tell me where it is. I was told that it would be returned. Nothing. Where is this book? Can someone track it down and, at least, send it to me? Thanks. I appreciate any help in this matter.Caroleigh Robinson
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- Posted: May-16-2008
A haunting look at ones mans deteriorating sanity...
I can only conclude after finishing `Affliction' that Russell Banks is our greatest American author. Those were my feelings after reading this for the first time, but after my second time through the book my feelings are confirmed. I remember reading `The Sweet Hereafter' (probably Banks'...
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- Posted: Apr-25-2008
Excellent
A stirring and strange tale that turns a philosophial microscope on a troubled man waging battle against his community, his self and his painful past.
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- Posted: Jan-07-2007
very good
This book is spellbinding in its story but also in its character description. It is another father beats son story but its OK because Banks handles the material with such skill and the story is about so much else as well. It is set in northern New Hampshire and the cold, snowy scenery comes...
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- Posted: Dec-30-2002
A strong look at alcoholism and child abuse
Russell Banks has crafted a strong story about the effects of alcoholism on children. The story follows Wade, a divorced father of a single pre-teen daughter. The mother, however - his high school sweetheart, whom he had married, and divorced, on two separate occasions - has custody and has since...
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- Posted: May-09-2002
Early, Long, Forever Winter
This is a tough book. It is the last years of a family that has lived in the miseries of violence and addiction. These are always complicated sooner or later by poverty and loss of soul. The very landscape has been beaten up and bought up and drilled to make it little more than a ghost of nature....
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- Posted: Apr-25-2002
wayyyy cool
dude, this book was rad. it was so funny when the little girl cries because her dad of her dad beat her dad. i liked the ending because the brother talks about people working at video stores and video stores are cool. read this book anyd you will see what im talking about.
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- Posted: Dec-26-2001
Rugged, tough as nails -- and powerful
There are a lot of books out there by "cowboy poets" or sort of macho-ish writers. "Affliction" has no such pretensions, but it's more austere, rugged, and well-crafted than the best of them.You can read the other reviews for the plot. I won't repeat it. I'll just say this: The relationship...
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- Posted: Nov-18-2001
Another Bank's great
Why do bad things happen to good people? Because their parents (stink). At least that's one of the messages that Russell Banks conveys in this dark tale of past abuses causing irrepriable emotional scars. Banks, once again, clearly illustrates that we are, at times, a product of our parents'...
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